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bot⋅tle

1  [bot-l] noun, verb, -tled, -tling.
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–noun
1. a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
2. the contents of such a container; as much as such a container contains: a bottle of wine.
3. bottled cow's milk, milk formulas, or substitute mixtures given to infants instead of mother's milk: raised on the bottle.
4. the bottle, intoxicating beverages; liquor: He became addicted to the bottle.
–verb (used with object)
5. to put into or seal in a bottle: to bottle grape juice.
6. British. to preserve (fruit or vegetables) by heating to a sufficient temperature and then sealing in a jar.
—Verb phrase
7. bottle up,
a. to repress, control, or restrain: He kept all of his anger bottled up inside him.
b. to enclose or entrap: Traffic was bottled up in the tunnel.
—Idiom
8. hit the bottle, Slang. to drink alcohol to excess often or habitually.
Origin:
1325–75; ME botel < AF; OF bo(u)teille < ML butticula, equiv. to LL butti(s) butt 4 + -cula -cule 1

Related forms:
bot⋅tle⋅like, adjective
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bot⋅tle

2  [bot-l]
–noun Architecture.
boltel (def. 2).

bol⋅tel

  [bohl-tuhl]
–noun Architecture.
1. Also, boutel, boutell, bowtel, bowtell. a convex molding, as a torus or ovolo.
2. Also, bottle. a curved fractable.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME boltell, equiv. to bolt bolt 1 + -ell n. suffix
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bot·tle   (bŏt'l)   
n.  

  1. A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped.

  2. The quantity that a bottle holds.

  3. A receptacle filled with milk or formula that is fed, as to babies, in place of breast milk.

  4. Informal

    1. Intoxicating liquor: Don't take to the bottle.

    2. The practice of drinking large quantities of intoxicating liquor: Her problem is the bottle.

tr.v.   bot·tled, bot·tling, bot·tles

  1. To place in a bottle.

  2. To hold in; restrain: bottled up my emotions.


[Middle English botel, from Old French botele, from Medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis, cask.]
bot'tler n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: bot·tle
Pronunciation: 'bät-&l
Function: noun
often attributive 1 : a rigid or semirigid containertypically of glass or plastic having a comparatively narrow neck or mouth and usually no handle —see WASH BOTTLE
2 : liquid food usually consisting of milk and supplements that is fed from a bottle (as to an infant) in place of mother's milk
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Bible Dictionary

Bottle

a vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam. 16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37, 38), or milk (Judg. 4:19), or water (Gen. 21:14, 15, 19), or strong drink (Hab. 2:15). Earthenware vessels were also similarly used (Jer. 19:1-10; 1 Kings 14:3; Isa. 30:14). In Job 32:19 (comp. Matt. 9:17; Luke 5:37, 38; Mark 2:22) the reference is to a wine-skin ready to burst through the fermentation of the wine. "Bottles of wine" in the Authorized Version of Hos. 7:5 is properly rendered in the Revised Version by "the heat of wine," i.e., the fever of wine, its intoxicating strength. The clouds are figuratively called the "bottles of heaven" (Job 38:37). A bottle blackened or shrivelled by smoke is referred to in Ps. 119:83 as an image to which the psalmist likens himself.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

bottle

In addition to the idiom beginning with bottle, also see crack a bottle; hit the bottle.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Encyclopedia

bottle

narrow-necked, rigid or semirigid container that is primarily used to hold liquids and semiliquids. It usually has a close-fitting stopper or cap to protect the contents from spills, evaporation, or contact with foreign substances.

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